Time for a Coffey break

The recent bias in Downing Street against putting the Work and Pensions Secretary up for press conferences and big media shows is inexplicable.

Iain Dale: Why have Buckland and Braverman signed up to breaking international law?

Plus: Deteriorating broadsheet standards, a divided United Kingdom. And: nineteen years on from 9/11.

Johnson, the Sunday Times and the virus. The Remainer losers have learnt nothing from the EU referendum and last year’s election.

It may be significant that the one person who doesn’t seem to be making their mistake is Keir Starmer.

Daily press conferences – and what should happen next

Needed during the coming weeks: a Government information campaign for older people, their families, employers and businesses.

Iain Dale: After Sitwell’s sacking, will I be the next journalist to be fired for offending snowflakes?

Plus: When The Sun doesn’t shine and the Home Office doesn’t work. P.S: In solidarity with the former Waitrose food magazine editor, I will eat steak.

Iain Dale: Let’s be frank. The entire commentariat class hasn’t a clue what will happen next.

Plus: May under fire at home and pressure abroad. And around tables at the heart of Westminster, Labour researchers huddle, as though ready for an election and power.

George Freeman: Come to our Big Tent Ideas Festival next weekend. And help build conservatism and capitalism for a new generation.

Penny Mordaunt, Liz Truss, Dan Hannan, Liam Halligan, Steve Baker, Tom Tugendhat & others will speak. And there’s a special discount for ConHome readers.

WATCH: “You no longer decide Labour Party policy”, Watson tells Campbell

“I’m well are of that,” Blair’s former spin doctor replies, in (fairly) good humour.

WATCH: Rees-Mogg – “You’d have thought” Project Fear “would have come to an end by now”

In reference to Clark’s comments earlier, the leader of the ERG points to previous discreditations of the “scare-story” approach.

WATCH: Lidington – “We are neither shutting our eyes nor holding our noses” to Assad’s other war crimes

As well as punishing the use of chemical weapons, “we are seeking to hold Assad to account at the UN Security Council…despite the fact that he is protected by Russia”.

WATCH: Hunt backs 10-year NHS budgets – “It takes seven years to train a doctor, you need…to plan for that”

The Health and Social Care Secretary tells Peston that better, longer-term planning would help to raise care standards.

WATCH: Leadsom – “We are very much committed to working for a good deal”

The Leader of the House of Commons responds to questioning about whether we should be worried about “no deal”.

WATCH: When Rayner called Labour’s economic strategy “s**t or bust”, she meant it would be “dramatic”, Corbyn claims

“What she was saying was we’re going to have an investment-led economy,” the Labour leader tells Peston, in an interesting redefinition of Rayner’s phrase.

Iain Dale: Wotcha, Peston. WTF are you on?

My TV omnipresence. After The News. Two wheezes from the Chancellor. Will he be fired in a reshuffle? Oh, and p.s: it could take place on Monday.

Iain Dale: Pull yourselves together, Johnson, Hammond – the whole squabbling lot of you. Or we’ll have Corbyn in Downing Street.

Plus: The Labour leader’s other Brighton speech: “It was a full-blown Marxist rant. Put up taxes. Employers are evil. You know the sort of thing. They lapped it up.”